Sustain; Keyboard Percussion - Yamaha Portatone PSR-640 Owner's Manual

Sustain

When the Sustain features is ON, all notes played on the keyboard have a longer
sustain. Press the [SUSTAIN] button to turn the SUSTAIN effect ON or OFF.

Keyboard Percussion

1
Press the [VOICE R1] button.
2
Press the [NEXT] button to display the "VOICE GROUP"
selection screen.
3
Select Voice group "Drum Kit."
Use the data dial, the [+/YES] button or the [-/NO] button.
4
Press the [BACK] button to return back to the VOICE selec-
tion screen.
5
Play the voice.
Refer to the illustration below and the drum kit list at the end of the manual
(page 148).
The drum and percussion instrument sounds for the standard kit (Std.Kit1) are
indicated by symbols printed below the keys.
[Standard Kit 1]
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5
Playing Voices
• The Transpose function
cannot be applied when a
drum kit is the selected voice
(page 30).
• Each key has a note name;
for example, the lowest
(farthest left) key on the
keyboard corresponds to C1
and the highest (farthest
right) key to C6 (See page
29 for details).
C6
31